Port details
deltachat-desktop Cross-platform decentralized encrypted messaging service
2.65.0 net-im Σ 2.62.0Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. Maintainer: feld@FreeBSD.org Port Added: 2025-10-30 17:39:15Last Update: 2026-10-29 23:37:20Commit Hash: 211c012 People watching this port, also watch: audacity , firefox , thunderbird , darkplaces , audacious License: AGPLv3WWW: https://delta.chat/ Description: # Delta Chat is a reliable, decentralized and secure messaging app,
available for mobile and desktop platforms.
Delta Chat feels like Whatsapp or Telegram but you can also use and
regard it as an e-mail app. You can signup anonymously to a variety of
interoperable chatmail servers which are minimal e-mail servers
optimized for fast and secure operations. Or you may use classic e-mail
servers and an existing e-mail account in which case Delta Chat acts as
an e-mail app. Manual pages: # FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist # USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines :
deltachat-desktop>0:net-im/deltachat-desktop To install the port : # cd /usr/ports/net-im/deltachat-desktop/ && make install clean To add the package , run one of these commands: pkg install net-im/deltachat-desktop pkg install deltachat-desktop PKGNAME: deltachat-desktop Flavors: # there is no flavor information for this port. ONLY_FOR_ARCHS: amd64 distinfo: # TIMESTAMP = 1793222787
SHA256 (pnpm-11.21.0.tgz) = 96fec95715477532b8ee519f74c75cee6456c1d4b9569488afdb898ee948c6ef
SIZE (pnpm-11.21.0.tgz) = 8770800
Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC): #
Dependencies # NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered. Build dependencies: #
node : www/node22 node22>0 : www/node22 electron42 : devel/electron42 zip : archivers/zip yq : textproc/yq update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
Test dependencies: #
node22>0 : www/node22
Runtime dependencies: #
deltachat-rpc-server>=2.65<2.66 : net/deltachat-rpc-server electron42 : devel/electron42 update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
Fetch dependencies: #
node22>0 : www/node22 jq : textproc/jq sqlite3 : databases/sqlite3
There are no ports dependent upon this port # Configuration Options : # No options to configure Options name : # net-im_deltachat-desktop USES: # electron:42,build,run desktop-file-utils nodejs:22,build npm:pnpm pkgconfig
pkg-message: # FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message Master Sites: #
Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page) Commit Credits Log message 2.65.0 Mark Felder (feld) net-im/deltachat-desktop: Update to 2.65.0 2.62.0_5 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron42 update (6c2e6bd88333) 2.62.0_4 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron42 update (f67c76ea6418) 2.62.0_3 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron42 update (deac69047879) 2.62.0_2 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron42 update (c2c8aa0857a2) 2.62.0_1 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron42 update (6fb8411cb84d) 2.62.0 Mark Felder (feld) net-im/deltachat-desktop: Update to 2.62.0 2.59.1_3 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron42 update (7e2f1f94fca1) 2.59.1_2 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron42 update (6f4506e29883) 2.59.1_1 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron42 update (9f1bd1f8edc3) 2.59.1 Mark Felder (feld) net-im/deltachat-desktop: Update to 2.59.1 2.59.0_6 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron42 update (92c45855c2fa) 2.59.0_5 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron42 update (7b8520ff7197) 2.59.0_4 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron42 update (011f831ac591) 2.59.0_3 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron42 update (f832ff69ee41) 2.59.0_2 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron42 update (d346072f67be) 2.59.0_1 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron42 update (49ce10da799e) 2.59.0 Mark Felder (feld) net-im/deltachat-desktop: Update to 2.59.0 2.57.0_2 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron42 update (e25bed0a6ecc) 2.57.0_1 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron42 update (d074a8e368f4) 2.57.0 Mark Felder (feld) net-im/deltachat-desktop: Update to 2.57.0 2.53.1_3 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron42 update (4c360b5ba109) 2.53.1_2 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron42 update (6aa325ae9f88) 2.53.1_1 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron42 update (fd67ba2aab44) 2.53.1 Mark Felder (feld) net-im/deltachat-desktop: Update to 2.53.1 2.52.0_7 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron42 update (4ed0ee6e7044) 2.52.0_6 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron42 update (aed59c572bbd) 2.52.0_5 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron42 update (c6806deb82a2) 2.52.0_4 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Adjust USES and USE_ELECTRON after electron.mk split (ed6a84c1c979) 2.52.0_4 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron42 update (dc602c027fbf) 2.52.0_3 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron42 update (d137a52ab3b4) 2.52.0_2 Mark Felder (feld) net-im/deltachat-desktop: Switch to Electron 42
PR: 296045 2.52.0_2 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron40 update (4407d794e79d) 2.52.0_1 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron40 update (3b6a680952a1) 2.52.0 Mark Felder (feld) net-im/deltachat-desktop: Update to 2.52.0 2.51.0 Mark Felder (feld) net-im/deltachat-desktop: Update to 2.51.0 2.49.1_3 Mark Felder (feld) net-im/deltachat-desktop: Build against Electron40
Electron39 is EOL and has been deprecated 2.49.1_2 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron39 update (63fb799e9802) 2.49.1_1 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron39 update (2c155d9b7dab) 2.49.1 Mark Felder (feld) net-im/deltachat-desktop: Update to 2.49.1
MFH: 2026Q2 2.48.0_2 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron39 update (e2bee27e1d81) 2.48.0_1 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron39 update (29f337f0e7de) 2.48.0 Mark Felder (feld) net-im/deltachat-desktop: Update to 2.48.0 2.43.0_5 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron39 update (778d5302fb5d) 2.43.0_4 Mark Felder (feld) net-im/deltachat-desktop: Switch to Electron 39
Upstream will continue to support Electron 39, so now we can have
Deltachat Desktop on FreeBSD package mirrors.
See PR 270565 for details about the current status of packaging Electron
apps on FreeBSD. 2.43.0_3 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron40 update (28b736ad7615) 2.43.0_2 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron40 update (24bf3f7633de) 2.43.0_1 Mark Felder (feld) net-im/deltachat-desktop: Fix distinfo
The distinfo in my staged commit was from before
dc5d1ed9379bf9b2bebfe8631b2caa99a7cf0819
which fixed distinfo reproducibilty when using pnpm 2.43.0 Mark Felder (feld) net-im/deltachat-desktop: Update to 2.43.0 2.35.0_5 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron39 update (7d22b072e1b5) 2.35.0_4 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron39 update (ef4c7150df38) 2.35.0_3 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron39 update (97e8bdfef102) 2.35.0_2 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron39 update (8d9f189881c9) 2.35.0_1 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron39 update (af09aa198c34) 2.35.0 Mark Felder (feld) net-im/deltachat-desktop: Update to 2.35.0 2.33.0_1 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Bump port revision after electron37 update (d2d025c37389) 2.33.0 Mark Felder (feld) net-im/deltachat-desktop: Update to 2.33.0
This release now supports multiple relays which you can add to your
profile to make your DeltaChat identity nomadic.
Changelog: https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop/releases/tag/v2.33.0 2.25.3 Mark Felder (feld) net-im/deltachat-desktop: Update to 2.25.3
Changelog: https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop/releases/tag/v2.25.3 2.25.2_1 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: bump port revision after electron37 update (6c349dbafa33) 2.25.2 Mark Felder (feld) net-im/deltachat-desktop: Update to 2.25.2 2.25.1 Mark Felder (feld) net-im/deltachat-desktop: Update to 2.25.1
Changelog: https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop/releases/tag/v2.25.1 2.22.0_2 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: bump port revision after electron37 update (e6c0b71aa9c2) 2.22.0_1 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: bump port revision after electron37 update (b2d531ae5a48) 2.22.0 Mark Felder (feld) net-im/deltachat-desktop: New port
Delta Chat is a reliable, decentralized and secure messaging app,
available for mobile and desktop platforms.
Delta Chat feels like Whatsapp or Telegram but you can also use and
regard it as an e-mail app. You can signup anonymously to a variety of
interoperable chatmail servers which are minimal e-mail servers
optimized for fast and secure operations. Or you may use classic e-mail
servers and an existing e-mail account in which case Delta Chat acts as
an e-mail app.
